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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Trustees of Columbia College 5 

STATUTES OF THE COZ,LE&E. 

CHAPTER I. 

Of the president 7 

CHAPTER II. 
Of the Board of the College 8 



CHAPTER III. 

Of the course of study 10 

CHAPTER IV. 
Of admission. 12 

CHAPTER V. 

Of attendance 18 

CHAPTER VI. 
Of discipline I'S 

CHAPTER VII. 

Of the proficiency of students 14 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Of academic honors 16 

CHAPTER IX. 
Of conimLencements 17 

CHAPTER X. 
Of vacations , 19 

CHAPTER XI. 
Of the library 19 

CHAPTER XII. 
Of free scholarships 31 

CHAPTER XIII. 
Of foundations 31 



iv CONTENTS. 

STATUTX! FOn ORaANIZlNG THE SCHOOL OF MINES. 

CHAPTER I. PAGE 
Of the president 23 

CHAPTER II. 
Of the faculty of the School of Mines 2?, 

CHAPTER III. 

Of admission 34 

CHAPTER IV. 
Of the course of study 35 

CHAPTER V. 

Of the proficiency of students and of graduation 36 

CHAPTER VI. 

Of discipline 27 

CHAPTER VII. 
Of fees for tuition • • • 28 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Of comuiencement and degrees 28 

STATUTE FOR ORGANIZING TME SCHOOL OF LAW. 

CHAPTER I. 
Of the president 29 

CHAPTER II. 
Of the warden 29 

CHAPTER III. 

Of the faculty 30 

CHAPTER IV. 

Of admissions 31 

CHAPTER V. 
Of the course of study 33 

CHAPTER VI. 

Of degrees 32 

RESOLUTIONS. 

PROVIDIN& FOB A SCHOOL OF MBDICIETE 34 

Providing fob a School of Political Scibnck 35 



TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 



NAMES. RBSIDBJSfOBS. 

HAMILTON FISH, LL.D., Chairman of the Board, 351 East 17th Street. 

HORATIO POTTER, S.T.D., LL.D., D.C.L 38 East 22d Street. 

WILLIAM C. SCHERMERHORN 49 West 33d Street. 

MORGAN DIX, S.T.D 37 West 25th Street. 

FREDERICK A. P. BARNARD, S.T.D., LL.D., L.H.D College Green. 

SAMUEL BLATCHFORD, LL.D Washington, D. C. 

STEPHEN P. NASH 11 West 19th Street. 

JOSEPH W. HARPER. Jr 563 Fifth Avenue. 

CORNELIUS R. AGNEW, M.D 366 Madison Avenue. 

A. ERNEST VANDERPOEL 114 East 16th Street. 

CHARLES A. SILLIMAN 41 West 46th Street. 

FREDERICK A. SCHERMERHORN 61 University Place. 

GERARD BEEKMAN, Clerk op the Board 5 East 34th Street. 

Office, 149 Broadway. 

ABRAM N. LITTLEJOHN, S.T.D 170 Remsen Street, Brooklyn. 

JOHN J. TOWNSEND 131 Fifth Avenue. 

EDWARD MITCHELL 45 West 55th Street. 

W. BAYARD CUTTING 18 West 57th Street. 

TALBOT W. CHAMBERS, S.T.D 70 West 36th Street. 

SETH LOW 201 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. 

GEORGE L. RIVES 15 East 39th Street. 

LENOX SMITH 1 Wall Street. 

GEORGE L. PEABODY, M.D 57 West 38th Street. 

JOHN CROSBY BROWN 36 East 37th Street. 



JOHN MCLEAN NASH, Treasurer 67 Wall Street. 

5 



STATUTES 



COLUMBIA COLLEGE 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE PRESIDENT, 



§ 1. It shall be the duty of the president to take charge and 
have care of the college generally, of its buildings, of the 
grounds adjacent thereto, and of its movable property upon the 
same. To see that the course of instruction and discipline pre- 
scribed by the statutes is faithfully pursued, and to prevent and 
rectify all deviations from the same. 

To call meetings of the faculty, and to give such directions 
and perform such acts as shall, in his judgment, promote the 
interests of the college, so that they do not contravene the 
charter, the statutes, the orders of the Board of Trustees, or the 
decisions of the Board of the College. 

To visit the class-rooms from time to time, and keep himself 
informed of the manner in which the classes are taught. 

To report to the trustees annually, at the stated meeting in 
May, and as occasion shall require, the state of the college, and 
particularly the manner in which the several professors and 
tutors perform their respective duties. 

§ 2. He shall have power to grant leave of absence from the 
college for a reasonable cause, and for such length of time as he 
shall judge the occasion may require ; provided that when such 
leave of absence exceeds two days, it be entered upon the 
minutes of the Board of the College. 



8 OF THE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. 

§ 3. He shall preside at commencements and at all meetings 
of the board, and shall sign all diplomas. 

§ 4. He shall assemble the classes every day except Saturday 
and Sunday, at half-past nine o'clock A.M., for the purpose of 
attending prayers ; and at these daily prayers it shall be the 
duty of each of the members of the board to be present, unless 
his presence shall be dispensed with by the president. 

§ 5. In the absence or sickness of the president, the senior 
professor, who shall be in the regular performance of his duties, 
shall have authority to perform the duties and exercise the 
authority of the president. 



CHAPTER n. 

OF THE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. 

§ 1. The president and the professors engaged in the sub- 
graduate course of instruction shall constitute the Board of the 
College. Tutors shall have seats at the board on all occasions 
when the conduct or proficiency of the students under their 
charge, in the departments in which they respectively give 
instruction, shall be in question, but on no other occasion ; but 
they shall have no vote. 

§ 2. The professors shall take precedence according to the 
date of their appointments. 

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the professors and tutors to 
assist the president with their counsel and co-operation. 

§ 4. The board shall have power : 

To try offences committed by the students ; 

To determine their relative standing ; 

To adjudge rewards and punishments, and to make all such 
regulations of their own proceedings and for the better execu- 
tion of the college system as shall not contravene the charter of 
the college, nor the statutes, nor any oi'der of the Board of 
Trustees. 



OF THE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. 9 

§ 5, The concurrence of the president shall be necessary to 
every act of the board ; and in case the board shall be equally 
divided, the president shall have a casting vote in addition to 
his vote as a member of the board. 

§ 6. In case of the absence of the president, the senior pro- 
fessor present shall preside at the meetings of the board, and all 
acts of the board thus constituted shall be valid, unless the 
president shall, at the next subsequent stated meeting at which 
he shall be present, express his dissent, either personally or in 
writing. 

§ 1. Upon any resolution, duly seconded, a vote shall be 
taken, if desired by the mover. When the president dissents 
from the vote of the majority of the board, such vote and such 
dissent shall be recorded in the minutes. 

§ 8. The board shall meet for the purpose of administering 
the general discipline of the college once in each week, except 
in vacation. At these meetings the professors shall report 
concerning the conduct and proficiency of the members of the 
respective classes, noting particularly those who have been 
delinquent in their behavior or attendance, or deficient or negli- 
gent in their recitations, with the number of their absences. 

§ 9. The board shall keep minutes of their proceedings, and 
shall appoint one of their own number to perform that duty. 

§ 10. In those minutes shall be noted the names of the mem- 
bers present and absent at each meeting. It shall be the duty 
of the president to cause such minutes to be laid before the 
trustees at their meetings. 

§ 11. No member of the Board of the College, or of the 
Faculty of the School of Mines, and no other officer engaged in 
instruction shall be employed in any occupation which shall 
interfere with the thorough, efficient, and earnest performance 
of the duties of Lis office. 



10 OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

CHAPTER III. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ 1. There shall be four classes of undergraduate students in 
college, to be called the freshman class, the sophomore class, 
the junior class, and the senior class. The course of study of 
each of these classes shall occupy a year, and the entire course 
four years. 

§ 2. The freshman class shall be instructed in the Latin and 
Greek languages, Grecian history and Roman antiquities, 
rhetoric, and the more elementary branches of the pure mathe- 
matics, 

§ 3. The sophomore class shall be instructed in the Latin 
and Greek languages, Roman history and Grecian antiquities, 
modern history, English literature, chemistry, and the remain- 
ing branches of pure mathematics usually taught in colleges, 
except analytical geometry and the differential and integral 
calculus. 

§ 4. The junior class shall be instructed in the Latin and 
Greek languages, history of literature, logic, psychology, 
{esthetics, modern history, analytical geometry, mechanics, 
and physics. 

§ 5. During the senior year, instruction shall be given in 
astronomy, physics, political economy, constitutional govern- 
ment, geology and mineralogy, the Latin and Greek languages 
and literature, history of philosophy, psychology, theoretic, 
analytic, or applied chemistry, and the differential and inte- 
gral calculus. 

§ 6. In each of the four years the student shall be exercised 
in English composition, and during the first three years in Latin 
and Greek composition also, and in elocution. 

§ 7. Instruction shall be given to students who may desire it, 
in the German language and its literature, and in such other 



OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 11 

modern languages as the Board of Trustees may see fit to 
direct. 

§ 8. A plan of the course, specifying more in detail the 
studies to be pursued in each year and in each of the depart- 
ments of instruction, shall be prepared by the Board of the 
College, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees ; and 
this plan, after having been so approved, shall be published. 

§ 9, The trustees shall assign to each professor or other 
instructor such proportion of the time of the classes as may 
seem to them judicious ; and the faculty shall prepare, in con- 
formity with this allotment, such a scheme of daily instruction 
as shall appear to be best adapted to promote the advancement 
of the students in their various studies. 

§ 10. The text-books to be used by the classes may be 
selected by the professors in their several departments, with 
the approval of the president, and with the reserved right of 
control by the Board of Trustees. 

§ 11. The hours of instruction at the college shall be the four 
in each day which immediately follow the morning exercises of 
the chapel, or so many of them, not less than three, as it may 
be found practicable to employ, and such other hours as the 
trustees may at any time hereafter assign ; and during those 
hours the classes severally, or their several sections, shall attend 
such instructors as shall be prescribed in the scheme of daily 
instruction, or as the Board of the College may direct, and in 
the order which may be so determined. 

§ 12. No professor or other olficer of the. college shall excuse 
a class or section from assembling at the time and place 
appointed for lecture or recitation, or dismiss a class or section 
after it may have assembled before the expiration of the 
time allotted to the exercise, without the consent of the presi- 
dent ; nor, without such consent, shall any class or section be 
excused from the performance of any exercise required of them 
by law ; but individual students may, for satisfactory reasons, 
be excused from such performance by the officers to whom they 
are due. 



12 . OF ADMISSION. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF ADMISSION. 

§ 1. As a general rule, no student shall be admitted to the 
freshman class, at its formation, unless he shall have attained 
the age of fifteen years ; nor shall any one be admitted to a 
more advanced standing without a corresponding increase of 
age ; but this rule may be dispensed with when, in the opinion 
of the faculty, there are sufficient reasons to justify its relaxa- 
tion. 

§ 2. Every candidate for admission to the college shall be 
required to present, before examination, a certificate of good 
moral character from his last teacher, or from some citizen in 
good standing ; and students from other colleges shall be 
required to bring certificates from those colleges of honorable 
dismission. 

§ 3, Every applicant for admission to the freshman class 
shall be examined in the English, Latin, and Greek grammars, 
Latin prosody and composition, ancient and modern geogra- 
phy, arithmetic, and so much of algebra and geometry, and 
such authors in Greek and Latin, as the Board of the College 
may prescribe. All the requisitions for admission shall be 
annually published, and the Board of the College shall have 
power, from time to time, with the concurrence of the Board of 
Trustees, to modify these requisitions as the exigencies of the 
college may seem to require. 

§ 4. No candidate shall be admitted to an advanced standing 
until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination upon the 
studies which have been pursued by the class for which he 
applies, as well as upon those enumerated in the foregoing sec- 
tion ; nor, in case he shall have been previously a member of 
another college, without a certificate from such college of his 
discharge in good standing. 

§ 5. Every student admitted to the college will be required 
immediately upon his admission, and subsequently at the begin- 



OB* ATTENDANCE. — OF DISCIPIilNE. 13 

ning of each succeeding academic year, to write in the matricu- 
lation book of the college his own name, and the name, place 
of abode, and post office of his father or guardian. 

§ 6. None but matriculated students or graduates of the col- 
lege shall be allowed to attend any of the classes without the 
special permission of the Board of Trustees. 

§ 7. Tuition fees shall be paid on matriculation. 

§ 8. An honorable discharge shall always be granted to any 
student in good standing, who may desire to withdraw from the 
college ; but no undergraduate student shall be entitled to a dis- 
charge without the assent of his parent or guardian, given in 
writing to the president, 

§ 9. So soon as a student shall have been admitted to the 
college, he shall be presented with a copy of these statutes, and 
of any printed rules or by-laws made under them for the gov- 
ernment of the students by the Board of the College ; and 
another copy of the same shall be sent or delivered to his 
parent or guardian. 

CHAPTER V. 

OF ATTENDANCE. 

§ 1. The attendance of the students upon all college exercises 
shall be obligatory, and shall be enforced by the Board of the 
College under suitable penalties. 

§ 2. Irregularities in attendance shall be reported to the 
president, whose duty it shall be from time to time, as occasion 
may in his judgment require, to report such irregularities to the 
parent or guardian of the student in f au It. 



CHAPTER YI. 



OF DISCIPLINE, 



§ 1. Cases of misconduct on the part of students shall be 
referred in the first instance to the president. 



14 OF THE PROPICIBNCY OF STUDENTS. 

§ 2. Any member of the faculty may summon a student to 
appear before the Board of the College, and in such case he 
shall immediately report the facts of the case to the president. 

§ 3. In case any member of a class under instruction disturb 
the class exercises, the professor may require such student to 
leave the room ; and the student shall thereupon forthwith 
report himself to the president. 

§ 4. All sentences of the board adjudging punishments shall 
be reduced to writing before they are pronounced, and the stu- 
dents whom they affect shall be cited to hear the same read in 
the presence of the board alone. 

§ 5. If it appear to the board that the members of a class, or 
any number of them, have entered into a combination to avoid 
collegiate duties, or to violate any of the statutes or any regu- 
lation of the board, any one or more of those embraced in such 
combination may be proceeded against separately. 

§ 6. No student shall be a member of any professional school 
during his academic course. 



CHAPTER VII. 

OF THE PEOFICIENCY OF STUDENTS. 

§ 1. Each professor or other instructor shall make to the 
president a monthly report of the names of such students as 
may be deficient in his department ; and shall also report daily 
those who may have been unprepared to recite, or who may have 
made absolute failure in attempting to recite. The president 
shall immediately notify each student reported as deficient of 
the fact of such report. 

By deficiency is here meant such a degree of imperfection in 
attainment as is likely, if not removed, to prevent the recom- 
mendation of the student for his degree, at the close of the 
academic course. 

§ 2. Each professor or other instructor shall, at the end of 



OF THE PROFICIENCY OP STUDEJNTS. 15 

every month after the first month of each year, make and keep 
a numerical scale of the standing of all the students under his 
instruction, according to a standard prescribed by the Board of 
the College — the order of merit to be determined by examina- 
tion conducted in any manner which the professor may choose. 

§ 3. Besides the monthly examinations provided for in the 
foregoing section, there shall be two public examinations of all 
the classes every year — the one to commence on the last Mon- 
day in January, and the other on the Monday of the third week 
preceding commencement ; which examinations shall severally 
extend to all the studies pursued during the session immediately 
preceding. Each of these examinations shall have a weight in 
the determination of scholarship equal to that of all the monthly 
examinations of the term. The senior class may be excused 
from attendance at college during the week preceding their 
final examination. 

§ 4. The Board of the College shall prescribe such rules as 
may be necessary to make the examinations a true and impartial 
test of the attainments of the students ; and any one who shall 
be found to have willfully violated these rules, or any of them, 
shall be liable to be dropped from the roll of the college. 

§ 5. Each professor or other instructor shall, after each semi- 
annual examination, report to the president a numerical scale of 
the standing in scholarship of all the students under his instruc- 
tion during the preceding half year, according to a standard pre- 
scribed by the Board of the College. 

The sum total of all the valuations assigned to the perform- 
ances of each student in any department, in the semi-annual 
reports, estimated as above, shall be taken to express the value 
of the student's scholarship in said department. These results 
shall only be used to ascertain the student's proficiency, and 
shall not be made public ; but the president may give to the 
parent or guardian of any student the particulars embraced in 
them, so far as that student is concerned. 

§ 6. Any student who shall be found deficient in the same 
department in more than one monthly record may be required 



16 OF ACADEMIC HONORS. 

to Study with a private tutor the subjects in which he is deficient, 
and to pass a rigorous examination on the same, at a time to be 
appointed by the Board of the College, or shall no longer be per- 
mitted to be a candidate for a degree. 

§ 7. No student who, after the close of the intermediate ex- 
amination of the senior year, shall be found to have any defi- 
ciencies recorded against him, shall be longer a candidate for a 
degree in arts, unless the Board of the College shall, for reasons 
of weight, see fit to allow him further examination on the sub- 
jects in which he is deficient. 

§ 8. Every student, whose record of scholarship shall be found 
at the close of the academic course to be fair, shall be entitled 
to be recommended to the Board of Trustees for the degree of 
bachelor of arts. If there be any one against whom there shall 
appear a record of deficiency not subsequently made good, in 
regard to which the Board of the College is satisfied that there 
has been no culpable neglect of duty, such student may, in the 
discretion of the board, be recommended for a degree speoiali 
gratia ; and every student who may fail of such recommenda- 
tion shall be entitled to a certificate stating the duration of his 
attendance and the degree of his attainment. 

§ 9. Previously to each public examination, notice shall be 
given, in two of the daily papers published in the city, of the 
time when the examination is to commence ; and the regents of 
the university, the trustees of the college, the parents and 
guardians of students, and such other persons as the president 
may think proper so to distinguish, shall be invited to attend. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

OF ACADEMIC HONORS. 

§ 1. At the close of the senior year the results contained in 
all the semi-annual reports of all the four years shall be com- 
bined, by adding together the valuations assigned to the per- 
formances of each student severally in such reports ; and upon 
the basis of the totals thus ascertained, all academic honors 
shall be awarded. 



OP COMMENCEMBNTS, l'? 

§ 2. The Board of the College shall determine what propor- 
tion of the maximum of values obtainable shall entitle a student 
to be included in the honor list. All those students whose totals 
amount to, or exceed, the proportion thus determined shall be 
divided into three groups, to be styled the first, the second, and 
the third classes of honor ; and the board shall prescribe the 
proportion which shall entitle a student to be enrolled in these 
classes severally. 

§ 3. In the allotment of parts in the litei'ary exercises of the 
commencement, preference shall always be given to those mem- 
bers of the graduating class whose names are included in the 
honor list, and if the number of these others be sufficient, no 
shall be selected. 



CHAPTER IX. 

OF COMMEIirCEMBNTS. 

§ 1. There shall be an annual commencement on the second 
Wednesday in June, when academic degrees shall be conferred, 
and orations shall be delivered by members of the graduating 
class, who shall have been selected by the Board of the College, 
with reference to their standing in the class and their capacity 
to acquit themselves creditably at the commencement, viz. : 

One Greek salutatory and oration or poem ; 

One Latin oration or poem ; 

Two English orations by members of the graduating class 
of the School of Mines ; 

Two English orations by members of the graduating class 
of the college ; 

And a valedictory. 

But a poem in English or a German oration may be substi- 
tuted for either of the English orations. 

§ 2. The English orations provided for in the foregoing 



18 Oi' COMMENCEMENTS. 

section shall be prepared under the following general regu- 
lation : 

Members of eveiy senior class shall be required, as a condition 
of graduation, to prepare and present to the president, and in 
conformity with the directions which he may prescribe, on or 
before the first day of May in the senior year, a written essay, 
dissertation, oration, or poem, suitable to be pronounced before 
a public audience ; and after the speakers shall have been 
selected for commencement, such speakers shall be allowed to 
deliver in public, on commencement day, the compositions 
prepared as above directed, except such as may have speeches 
assigned them in languages other than the English, or shall be 
duly appointed to deliver salutatory or valedictory addresses. 

§ 3. All such orations shall be subject to criticism by the 
president ; and the student who shall refuse or neglect to adopt 
the corrections and amendments pointed out to him, or who 
shall deliver his oration or exercise otherwise than is approved 
by the president, shall not receive his degree. 

§ 4. Any student neglecting or refusing to perform the part 
assigned to him shall not receive his degree. 

§ 5. No alumnus of this college shall receive the degree of 
master of arts in less than three years after the date of his 
first diploma, unless he shall pursue a course of study for such 
degree for a term of at least one year in the Graduate Depart- 
ment of the college, in which case, at the close of such term 
of study, he may, on passing an approved examination, and on 
recommendation of the Board of the College, receive the 
degree of master. The president may assign to one or more of 
the alumni of the college who may apply for the degree of master 
of arts such orations or exercises as he may deem expedient ; 
which orations or exercises shall be delivered the last in the 
order of the day, the valedictory oration excepted ; but no 
oration or exercise shall be delivered unless approved by the 
president. 

§ 6. No person of immoral character shall be admitted to the 
honors of this college. 



Of VACATIONS— OF THE LIBRARY. 19 

§ 7. Each candidate for the degree of bachelor or master 
of arts shall, before the same is conferred, discharge all his 
liabilities to the college. 

§ 8. A committee of the trustees, to be annually appointed 
for that purpose, shall, together with the president, make all 
further requisite arrangements for the annual commencements. 



CHAPTER X. 

OP VACATIONS. 

§ 1. There shall be a vacation of all the classes from the 
second Wednesday in June until the first Monday in October, 

§ 2. There shall be an intermission of the public lectures on 
Ash-Wednesday, Grood-Friday, Easter-Monday, on public holi- 
days established by law, and on such days in each year as may 
be recommended by the civil authority to be observed as days 
of fast or thanksgiving ; and for two weeks, commencing with the 
fourth Monday in December, unless the fourth Monday shall fall 
later than the twenty-sixth day of the month, and in that case 
commencing with the third Monday. 

§ 3. The president may, in extraordinary cases, grant an 
intermission for other days, not exceeding one day at any one 
time ; and it shall be his duty always to report the same at the 
next succeeding meeting of the Board of Trustees, together 
with the object and reason for granting such intermission. 



CHAPTER XI. 

OF THE LIBRARY, 



§ 1. The committee on the library shall, subject to the 
trustees, have the entire charge and control of the library and 
the rooms containing it, and also of the expenditure of all moneys 



20 OF THE LIBRARY. 

appropriated by the Board of Trustees for the purchase of books 
and supplies therefor, shall appoint all needed assistants and sub- 
ordinate officers, and fix their titles, duties, and compensations, 
provided that the total amount shall not exceed the appropria- 
tion of the trustees for that purpose, make and enforce by suit- 
able penalties any needed rules and regulations relating to the 
library, its readers, officers, or servants, and, unless otherwise 
specially ordered by the trustees, shall have charge of all mat- 
ters pertaining to the college library, and the custody of all 
college publications, works of art and of historical interest, etc., 
belonging to the college, and shall make proper catalogues, 
inventories, and annual examinations, and fix the place of deposit 
of the same, and may make any needed regulations to increase 
their usefulness or safety. 

§ 2. The chief librarian shall be ex-officio the secretary and 
executive officer of the library committee, and under them 
shall have the general charge, management, and control of the 
matters entrusted to the committee, and shall pi'omulgate and 
attend to the execution of all orders, votes, directions, and regu- 
lations. 

He shall be the custodian of the property under the control 
of the committee, and of all files, records, books, and papers, 
shall keep full record of the proceedings, send all notices, con- 
duct all correspondence, sign and issue all orders, and no money 
shall be paid, on account of the library, for books, periodicals, 
binding, supplies, or administration or other expenses, unless the 
bill therefor has the written approval of the chief librarian or, 
in his absence, of his deputy, duly appointed by the committee. 

§ 3. The libi-ary committee shall annually report, on or before 
the first Monday in January, to the trustees the condition of the 
library building, fixtures, and books, the additions, use, receipts, 
and expenditures of the year, with any needed information or 
recommendations. With this annual report shall be submitted 
an estimate in detail of the appropriations required for the 
increase and administration of the library for the ensuing 
financial year, together with an estimate of any income to be 
derived from fines, the sale of duplicates, or other sources. 



OF FREE SCHOLARSHIPS.— OF FOUNDATIONS. 31 

CHAPTER XII. 

OF FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. 

§ 1, The Alumni Association of Columbia College shall be 
entitled to have always, in the undergraduate department, four 
students, to be instructed free of charge. 

§ 2. The Society for promoting Religion and Learning in the 
State of New York shall be entitled to have always, in the 
undergraduate department, two students in each class, to be 
instructed free of charge. 

§ 3. The members of the Board of the College, the professors 
of the School of Mines and of the Law School, and the chap- 
lain of the college, shall be entitled to have their sons educated, 
free of charge, in the undergraduate department, in the School 
of Mines, or in the Law School. 

§ 4. The above privileges are subject to the regulations of the 
Board of Trustees in regard to free tuition. 

§ 5. All free scholarships, except those granted under this 
statute, and those acquired under the present or former statutes 
of this college by the endowment of such scholarships, are 
abolished. 



CHAPTER Xin. 

OF FOUNDATIONS. 

§ 1. Any person or persons who may found a scholarship, by 
the payment of not less than two thousand dollars to the treas- 
urer of the college, shall be entitled to have always one student 
educated in the college free of all charges for tuition. This 
right may be transferred to others. The scholarship shall bear 
such name as the founder or founders may designate. 

§ 2. Any person or persons who shall endow a professorship 
in the classics, in political, mathematical, or physical science, or 
in the literature of any of the ancient or modern languages, by 
the payment of not less than one hundred thousand dollars to 



22 OF FOUNDATIOiMS. 

the treasurer of the college, shall forever have the right of 
nominating a professor for the same, subject to the approbation 
of the Board of Trustees, who shall hold his office by the same 
tenure as the other professors of the college — the nomination 
to be made by the person or persons who shall make the endow- 
ment, or such person or persons as he or they may designate. The 
proceeds of the endowment shall be appropriated to the salary 
of. the professor. 



STATUTE 



FOR ORGANIZING 



THE SCHOOL OF MINES 

(As Amended February 5 and June 4, 1877.) 



CHAPTEK I. 



OF THE PRESIDENT. 



,Tlie president of the college is the president of the faculty 
of the School of Mines. He shall preside at the meetings, when 
present, and shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER 11. 

OP THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF MINES. 

§ 1. The Faculty of the School of Mines shall consist of the 
president, and the professors engaged in the subgraduate course 
of instruction. 

§ 2. The instruction shall be conducted by the above profes- 
sors^ and such assistants and lecturers as have been or may here- 
after be appointed under the authority of the trustees. 

§ 3. The faculty shall have power to make such regulations 
for the management of the School of Mines as shall not contra- 
vene the charter of the college, nor the statutes, nor any order 
of the Board of Trustees. 

§ 4. The concurrence of the president shall be necessary to 
every act of the faculty. 



24 OF ADMISSION. 

§ 5. The faculty shall be authorized to elect a dean from 
among their own number, who shall be charged with such duties 
as the president may delegate to him. 

§ 6. In case of the absence of the president, the senior pro- 
fessor present shall preside at the meetings of the board ; but 
no act of the board thus constituted shall be valid until approved 
by the president. 

§ 1. The board shall hold stated meetings at least once a 
month during term-time, and shall keep a book of minutes of 
its proceedings, to be submitted by the president to the trustees 
at their meetings. 

CHAPTER III. 

OF ADMISSION. 

§ 1. Candidates for admission to the first class, at its forma- 
tion, must be of the age of seventeen years, complete ; and, for 
admission to advanced standing, there will be required a corre- 
sponding increase of age ; but this rule may be dispensed with 
in cases of unusual proficiency on the part of applicants, or for 
other reasons of weight, 

§ 2. The requisitions for admission shall be prescribed by the 
faculty of the school, subject to the approval of the Board of 
Trustees ; and all the requisitions for admission shall be annually 
pviblished. 

§ 3. No candidate shall be admitted to advanced standing 
until he sliall have passed a satisfactory examination upon the 
studies which have been pursued by the class for which he 
applies ; but graduates and students of colleges and schools of 
science, who shall have completed so much of the course of study 
as shall be equivalent to the requirements for admission to the 
school, may be admitted at the beginning of the second year, or 
earlier, without examination, on presenting diplomas or certifi- 
cates of good standing and lionorable dismissal, satisfactory to 
the examining officers. 



OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 25 

§ 4. None but students regularly entered as members of the 
school shall be allowed to attend the classes without permission 
of the Board of Trustees. 

§ 5, Tuition fees must be paid at entrance, and subsequently 
at the beginning of each session, before the student takes his 
place in his class. 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 



§ 1. There shall be four classes of students in the school, to 
be distinguished as the first, second, third, and fourth classes. 
The course of study of each of these classes shall occupy a year ; 
and the entire course four years. 

§ 2. During the first year instruction shall be given in geo- 
inetr}'-, algebra, trigonometry, and mensuration ; in elementary 
physics ; in chemistry, inorganic and organic, and in qualitative 
analysis; ^aJa UMaa ai aia i, and in drawing. 

§ 3. Instruction in the second year shall comprise analytical 
geometry, calculus, descriptive geometry, shades, shadows, 
and perspective;- surveying, theoretical chemistry, stoichiometry ; 
determinative mineralogy, qualitative blow-pipe analysis, and 
crystallography ; zoology and botany. 

§ 4. In the third year instruction shall be given in mechanics, 
quantitative analysis, mineralogy, and quantitative blow-pipe 
analysis ; in the principles of engineering, and their applica- 
tions to works of civil and mining engineering ; in mathe- 
matical physics; in applied chemistry; in metallurgy, geology, 
and surveying. 

§ 5. In the fourth year instruction shall embrace the princi- 
ples, construction, and management of machines and engines ; 
mining and civil engineering ; applied chemistry ; economic 
geology; geodesy and surveying; practical mining; ore dressing 
and assaying. 



36 OF THE PROFICIENCY OF STUDENTS AND OF GRADUATION. 

§ 6. The subjects of study enumerated in the foregoing sec- 
tions shall be so grouped as to form seven independent courses 
of instruction, viz., a course in civil enginering, a course in 
mining engineering, a course in metallurgy, a course in geo- 
logy and paleontology, a course in analytical and applied 
chemistry, a course in architecture, and a course in sanitary 
engineering. At the beginning of the first year each student 
shall elect which of the seven courses above mentioned he 
intends to pursue, and after having made his election, he shall 
not be permitted to abandon the course chosen in order to take 
up another, without the consent of the faculty, to be given only 
for reasons of weight. 

§ 7. In all studies which are common to two or more courses 
of instruction, the students electing those courses may be 
instructed in common ; but no student shall be a candidate for 
two different degrees at the same time. 

§ 8. In each of the four years, students shall be required to 
practise in drawing and in chemical analysis as the exigencies 
of the course they are pursuing may require, and in the second, 
third, and fourth years they shall be similarly practised in sur- 
veying in the open air, when the weather and their other scho- 
lastic engagements Avill allow. During the vacation following 
the close of the third year, students of mining engineering- 
shall engage in actual work in mines, under the superintendence 
of the adjunct professor of surveying and practical mining. 

§ 9. A plan of the several courses, specifying more in detail 
the studies to be pursued in each year, and in each department 
of instruction, shall be established by resolution of the Board 
of Trustees, and published. 



CHAPTER V. 

OF THE PROFICIENCr OP STUDENTS AND OF GRADUATION. 

§ 1. Every professor shall make and keep a numerical scale of 
standing in scholarship of all the students under his instruction, 
according to a standard prescribed by the faculty, the order of 
merit to be determined by examination. 



OF DISCIPIilNE. 27 

§ 2. The faculty may prescribe such rules as may be neces- 
sary to make the examinations a true and impartial test of the 
attainments of the students ; and any one who shall be found to 
have wilfully violated these rules, or any part of them, shall be 
liable to be dropped from the roll of the school. 

§ 3. Any student who, upon examination in any subject, shall 
have been pronounced deficient, shall be required to study the 
same subjects again, and to pass, at a time appointed by the 
faculty, a satisfactory examination on the same, failing in which 
he shall cease to be a candidate for a degree. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OF DISCIPLINE. 



§ 1. In case of misconduct in a student, unless the offence be 
so flagrant as in the judgment of the professor to require the 
interference of the faculty, the professor shall admonish the 
offender, either privately or publicly, and, upon failure of siic- 
cess, may, in his discretion, bring the subject before the faculty 
of the school. 

§ 2. The punishment of dismission shall be inflicted only by 
an act of the faculty. 

§ 3. A student whom it may be necessary to bring before the 
faculty shall have due notice of the time and place of their 
meeting, and shall be allowed to defend himself. 

§ 4. If injury be done to the buildings or other property of 
the college, or any property used by the School of Mines, by 
any student, the faculty shall have power to impose a pecuniary 
mulct to the extent of the damage ; and, unless such mulct be 
paid, the offending student shall be punished in the discretion of 
the faculty. 



28 OF FEES FOR TUITION. — OF COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. 

CHAPTER VII. 

OF FEES FOR TUITION. 

The fees of the school shall be paid into the treasury of the 
college. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

OF COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. 

§ 1. At the annual commencement, established by chajiter 
IX., § 1, of the statutes of the college, degrees shall be con- 
ferred on the students of the school who may be entitled to 
receive them, and such students shall be required to attend at 
the commencement for that purpose. 

§ 2. Among the public exercises of the commencement there 
shall be two orations by members of the graduating class of the 
school, who shall have been selected by the faculty of the 
school for their merit and their capacity to acquit themselves 
creditably in the performance of such exercise. 

§ 3. The orations provided for in the foregoing section shall 
be prepared in accordance with such regulations as may be pre- 
scribed by the president, and shall be subject to criticism by 
that officer ; and any student who fails to conform to such regu- 
lations, or shall refuse or neglect to adopt the corrections and 
amendments pointed out to him, or who shall deliver his oration 
otherwise than is approved by the president, shall not receive 
his degree. 



STATUTE 



FOR ORGANIZING 



THE SCHOOL OF LAW 

(As Amended February 7, 1876, and April 15, ]878.) 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE PRESIDENT, 



The president of the college is the president of the faculty 
of law. He shall preside at its meetings, when present, and 
shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER n. 



OF THE WARDEN. 



§ L It shall be the duty of the warden to see that the course 
of instruction prescribed is faithfully pursued, and due discipline 
observed ; to keep himself informed of the manner and efficiency 
of instruction in the several departments ; to call special meet- 
ings of the faculty, and to give such directions and perform 
such acts as shall in his judgment promote the interests of the 
school, so that they do not contravene the charter, the statutes, the 
orders of the Board of Trustees, or the decisions of the faculty of 
the school ; to give to the president of the college or to the com- 
mittee on the School of Law, from time to time, any informa- 
tion which he or they may require, as to the condition or admin- 
istration of the school, or as to the manner or efficiency of the 



30 OP THBi FACUliTt. 

instruction, or the performance of duty of any of its officers ; 
to report to the trustees annually, at the stated meeting in 
October, and as occasion shall require, the state of the school, 
and the measures which may be necessary for its prosperity, and 
particularly^ the manner in which the several professors perform 
their respective duties. 

§ 2. He shall have power to grant leave of absence to students 
for such length of time as he shall judge the occasion may 
require. 

§ 3. He shall preside, in the absence of the president of the 
college, at commencements of the law school, and shall sign 
all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER HI. 



OF THE FACULTY. 



§ 1. The facility shall be constituted of the president of 
the college, the warden, and the professors of the school. 
They shall meet statedly once a month during the annual term. 
They shall keep a book of minutes of their proceedings, to be 
submitted to the trustees of the college at their regular meet- 
ings, and to the committee on the School of Law, when called 
for by them. The president, or, in his absence, the warden, 
or, in the absence of both, the senior professor present, shall 
l^reside. 

§ 2. The faculty shall have power to act upon all cases of 
discipline in their discretion, with power to admonish, suspend, 
dismiss, or expel students, if such cases are brought before them 
by the warden ; to admit students who aa"e graduates of some 
college upon certificates of the college authorities, and those who 
are not graduates upon the report of the examiners. 

§ 3. No act of the faculty shall be valid, if disapproved by 
the president, if present, or by the warden, such disapproval to 
bo noted on its minutes. 



Ot* At>MISSIO]l!fS. 31 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF ADMISSIONS, 



§ 1. All graduates of literary colleges will be admitted with- 
out examination. Other candidates for admission must be at 
least eighteen years of age, and have received a good academic 
education, including such a knowledge of the Latin language as 
is required for admission to the freshman class of this college. 

§ 2. Candidates for admission, not graduates of literary col- 
leges, are required to pass an examination in the outlines of 
Greek and Roman history, history of England and the United 
States (of North America) ; English grammar, rhetoric, and 
the principles of composition ; in Caesar's Gallic War (entire), 
six books of Virgil's ^Eneid, and six orations of Cicero, or 
other Latin authors deemed by the examiners to be equivalent 
to the above. 

§ 3. Such examination shall be conducted by three examiners, 
alumni of the college, to be appointed by the committee on the 
School of Law. 

§ 4. The examinations shall begin in the law school building 
on the Saturday next preceding the first Wednesday in October, 
and shall be oral and in writing. 

§ 5. Students who are not candidates for a degree may be 
admitted to the law school without a preliminary examination 
in Latin, provided that none such shall be admitted to the incon- 
venience or overcrowding of the lecture rooms. 

§ 6. Students being candidates for a degree, who are well 
grounded in the principles of the Latin language, but who have 
not read the entire amount required by section 2 of this chapter, 
may be admitted to the law school, at the discretion of the 
faculty, conditionally, as candidates for a degree. If such defi- 
ciency is not made up in one year, they may be allowed to join 
the next junior class upon new conditions ; but they shall not 
be allowed to proceed with the senior class. 



^2 OF THE COURSE OF STUDY.— OF DEGREES. 

CHAPTER V. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ 1. There shall be two classes of undergraduate students m 
the law school, to be called respectively the senior and the junior 
class. The course of study of each of these classes shall occupy 
a year, and the entire course two years. 

§ 2. The annual term in the law school shair'cdtamence on 
the first Wednesday in October in each and every year, and 
shall close on that Wednesday in May which is nearest to the 
fifteenth day of the month. This annual term shall constitute 
the collegiate year. 

§ 3. A plan of the course, specifying in detail the studies to 
be pursued in each year and in each of the departments of 
instruction, shall from time to time be prepared by the faculty 
of the law school, subject to the approval of the committee on 
the School of Law ; and this plan, after having been so approved, 
shall be published. 

§ 4. The warden, in consultation with the faculty, shall have 
power to arrange the hours for lectures and recitations, as well 
as to select the text-books for the use of the students. 

§ 5, Moot courts shall be held under the direction of tli^ 
faculty, at such times as they may deem proper. The mode of 
proceeding and the assignment of students to take part in the 
discussion shall be under the direction of the warden. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OF DEGREES. 



§ 1. Every student who shall pass an apj)roved examination 
upon the required studies of the course shall be entitled to be 
recommended to the Board of Trustees for the degree of bach- 
elor of laws. Should the student not have attained the as:e of 



OP DEGREES. 33 

twenty-one years at the time of graduating, the delivery of the 
diploma shall he deferred until he shall have attained that age. 

§ 2. A student who shall not have pursued the full course of 
study shall be entitled to a certificate stating the duration of 
his attendance and the degree of his attainment, to be signed by 
the warden. 



RESOLUTIONS 



PROVIBING FOR A 



SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 

(Passed Junk 4, 1860.) 



Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of Gohimbia College 
hereby adopts the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the 
City of New York as the Medical School of Columbia College. 

Resolved, That the diplomas of the degree of doctor of 
medicine shall be conferred by the president of the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, sitting with the president of Columbia 
College, and shall be signed by the presidents of the respective 
colleges, and such others of the faculty as may be designated, 
from time to time, by by-laws or resolutions of the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons. 

Resolved, That this connection shall be continued during the 
pleasure of the respective Boards of Trustees of the two colleges, 
and may be determined by a vote of either board, and notice 
thereof given to the other Board of Trustees. 



RESOLUTIONS 



PROVIDING FOB A 



School of Political Science 

(Passed June 7, 1880.) 



Resolved, That there be established, to go into operation at 
the opening of the academic year next ensuing, a school 
designed to prepare young men for the duties of public life, to 
be entitled a School of Political Science, having a definitely pre- 
scribed ciirriculum of study extending over a period of three 
years, and embracing the history of philosophy; the history 
of the literature of the political sciences; the general consti- 
tutional history of Europe; the special constitutional history 
of England and the United States; the Roman law, and the 
jurisprudence of existing codes derived therefrom; the com- 
parative constitutional law of European states and of the 
United States; the comparative constitutional law of the dif- 
ferent states of the American Union; the history of diplomacy; 
international law; systems of administration, state and na- 
tional, of the United States; comparison of American and 
European systems of administration; political economy, and 
statistics. 

Jiesolved, That the qualification required of the candidate for 
admission to this school shall be that he shall have successfully 
pursued a course of undergraduate study in this college, or in 
some other maintaining an equivalent curriculum, to the close 
of the junior year. 

Resolved, That students of the school who shall satisfactorily 
complete the studies of the lirst year shall be entitled, on 
examination and the recommendation of the faculty, to receive 
the degree of bachelor of philosophy; and those who complete 
the entire course of three years shall, on similar examination 
and recommendation, be entitled to receive the degree of doctor 
of philosophy. 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Absences to be reported 13 

Academic honors, how determined 16 

Admission, age of 12 

" requisitions for. , 12 

" School of Mines 24 

" School of Law 31 

Attendance. ... 13 

Board of Trustees 5 

Board of the College, how constituted 8 

'' •' " powers of 8 

" " " meetings of 9 

" " '■ to keep minutes 9 

Buildings to be under president's chai'ge 7 

Classes of undergraduates, number and style 10 

" " studies of 10 

" in School of Mines 25 

' ' in School of Law 32 

College of Physicians and Surgeons adopted as School of Medicine 34 

Combinations, unlawful, how to be treated 14 

Commencement, time of 17, 28 

" allotments of parts at , 17, 28 

" exercises at ...17, 28 

" committee on. ... 19 

Course of study, outline of 10 

" " detailed plan to be published 11 

" . " in School of Mines 25 

" " in School of Law 32 

Dean of the School of Mines 24 

Deficiency, what is understood by 14 

Deficient students, how to be treated 15, 27 



38 INDEX. 

PAGE 

Degree of master of arts, how soon conferred 18 

" " " conditions required for 18 

Degrees, when conferred 17 28 32 

" may be forfeited, how 18,38 

" candidates for, must pay all dues 19 

•' in School of Mines 28 

" in School of Law 32 

Determination of standing 15^ 26 

Discharges granted only with consent of parent or guardian 13 

Discipline in the college 13 

" in the School of Mines 27 

" in the School of Law 30 

Dues to college to be paid befoi-e degree is conferred 19 

Examinations, number of '. 15 

" how to be conducted 15 

" to be advertised 16 

" invitations to be issued for 16 

" in School of Mines 26 

" in School of Law 31, 32 

Exercises may be suspended by the president. 19 

Faculty of the college, how constituted ... 8 

" " " their powers and duties 8, 9 

" of the School of Mines, how constituted 23 

" " " powers of 28 

" " " " meetings of 24 

" " " to keep minutes 24 

" of the School of Law 30 

" " " " powers of . 30 

" " " " meetings of 30 

" " to keep minutes 30 

Failures at recitation, to be reported 14 

Fees of undergraduates ... 13 

" of students in School of Mines 25, 28 

Foundations for scholarships 21 

" for professorships 21 

Graduates of the college may attend classes 13 



INDEX. 39 

PAGE 

Grrounds to be under president's supervision 7 

Holidays * 19 

Honors, academic, how to be determined 17 

Hours of instruction 11 

Laws, copies of, to be delivered to students 13 

" " to be sent to parents 13 

Law school. See School of Law. 

Librarian, his duties 20 

Library, committee of trustees to have charge of 19 

" committee on, shall report annually 30 

Masters of arts, orations by, at commencement 18 

Matriculation 13, 13 

Medicine, School of. See School of Medicine. 

Mining school. See School of Mines. 

Physicians and Surgeons, College of, adopted as School of 

Medicine 34 

President of the college, his powers and duties 7 

" shall have casting vote in the board 9 

" his concurrence necessary to acts of faculty 9 

" may suspend exercises 19 

Professors, reports to be made by 14, 15 

" to have no occupation interfering with college duties 9 

" time of, with the classes 11 

" shall not excuse classes from attendance 11 

Professorships, how they jnay be founded 21 

Punishments, sentences to be in writing 14 

Record to be kept of failures, want of preparation 14 

Reports, of president, to trustees 7 

" " to parents 15 

" of professors 14, 15 

" of committee on the Ubrary 20 

Rolls of merit, how to be constructed 17 

Scholarships, free 21 

" " may be founded, how 21 

School of Law 29 

" " president of 29 

" ** wardenof 29 



40 lifDEX. 

PAGi3 

School of Law, faculty of 30 

" " discipline of 30 

" " admission to 31 

School of Mines 23 

" " president of 23 

" dean of 24 

" faculty of 28 

" " admission to 24 

" " instruction in 25 

" " discipline of 27 

" fees of .25,28 

School of Medicine 34 

School of Political Science 35 

Statutes of the college 7-22 

" School of Mines 23-28 

School of Law 29-33 

Students, must matriculate before attending classes 13, 25 

" deficient, or partly deficient. 14, 15, 16, 27 

Suspension of exercises , 19 

Text-books, how to be selected 11 

Trustees of the college, names of 5 

Tuition fees, of undergraduates, when payable 13 

" "of students in School of Mines 25, 28 

Vacations 19, 32 

Want of preparation, to be recorded 14 

Warden of School of Law, his duties 29 

" " " is to report 30 

" " " his concurrence necessary to acts of 

faculty 30 




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